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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur, the late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq., New York
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Lawrence, Cyrus J
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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COMEST SCHOOL BY FRANCOIS SAINT BONVIN No. 48 FRANCOIS SAINT BONVIN > FRENCH (1817-1888) THE CONVENT SCHOOL The picture shows the interior of a small schoolroom in aFrench convent. Ranged on low benches round the walls arethe pupils, little girls in their uniform dress of course brownwith black cap and apron. All are busy studying their tasks,their heads bent, attentive to their books, while one of theirnumber stands before the mistress to say her lesson. Thelatter, a chubby nun, sits at a green-covered desk raised some-what above the floor, her long pointer leaning against the wallconvenient to her hand. The room is filled with subduedlight, which enters through a window high up on the right,casting a golden glow upon the fair heads and brown dressesof the young children, and illuminating the alphabets andtexts ranged around the room and casting dark shadows uponthe plaster of the walls. Signed at the lorver right, F. Bonvin. Height, 9 incites; length, 12% inches.Cottier $,• Co.
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No. 49LOUIS EUGENE BOUDIN FRENCH (1824-1898) LOW TIDE The picture shows the narrow entrance to a small harbor,from which the tide has receded, leaving a number of smallboats high and dry upon the sands. On the left a long jetty,on the end of which is a lighthouse, runs out into the sea, andon the right is a broad quay on which a number of people arestrolling. Beyond the bar is a glimpse of the open sea, smil-ing beneath the blue of a Summer sky, and the white sails ofa few distant boats flash in the sunlight. Signed at the lover left, Boudin, 85. Height, 9 inches; length \2l/2 inches. No. 50JOHN LEWIS BROWN FRENCH (1829-1890) THE MEET A broad sandy road runs over a stretch of heath, making asweeping curve in the foreground. The hunt has met at thisspot and the riders are taking a short interval to talk and restbefore moving off. An officer on a chestnut horse in the fore-ground is talking to a tall stout man in pink who standsbeside him. his groom holding his mount meanwhile. An oldge

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